TW201519071A - Technical documents capturing and patents analysis system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a technical documents capturing and patent analysis system and method. The system may comprise a capturing system and a reading with commentating system. The capturing system selects related drawings from a group of technical documents. It then provides important information and the related drawings onto an image for the readers' review. The reading with commentating system allows the readers to process technical classification, management and export/import for the group of technical documents. Readers may make comments on an information sharing platform after reviewing the technical documents. Besides, other materials collected or generated from the technical analysis on the technical documents may be attached to the information sharing platform.

Description

Technical literature extraction and patent analysis system and method

The present invention relates to a technical literature extraction and patent analysis system and method.

US Patent No. 6,058.417 discloses a Method and Apparatus for Information Presentation and Management in an Trading Environment, which provides information based on user information, including descriptions of sales items and The location of the image related to this project can be captured, and the image can be obtained from multiple websites. Then, corresponding to the obtained image, some thumbnail images are created, and then gathered and placed on a web page to be presented on the remote website. Similarly, when a user makes an inquiry, the corresponding thumbnail image is displayed, and each thumbnail image of the created thumbnail image is a user-specified image. basis.

This patent document discloses an interface in the online trading environment with a thumbnail image that has been arranged. This patent document does not disclose a technical literature analysis or reading management interface, and its corresponding technology and content. Therefore, this patent document cannot provide sufficient guidance for the arrangement of the graphic and content in the technical literature or the image capturing technique.

U.S. Patent No. 5,963,966 discloses an automatic extraction technique for technical documentation for Electronic Review and Distribution. This capture technique uses optical character recognition (OCR) to divide the technical literature into image files. (Drawing File) and text file (Text File), and archived to the appropriate location for storage or display. However, the use of this OCR technology scans the entire technical literature from start to finish, thus consuming a large amount of system resources and resulting in low output efficiency.

In the early stages of technology development, R&D teams often spend a lot of manpower and time to retrieve and read materials. For example, in the method for generating patent analysis data disclosed in Taiwan Patent Publication No. 200417882, a plurality of patents or classification numbers are retrieved by using an external database, and patents, classification numbers, feature sheets, and the like are used as patents. The relationship between the analysis and its connection.

In the System and Method for Mining and Statistical Analyzing Patent Information of the Taiwan Patent No. 567432, the user selects the type of analysis and sets the analysis conditions through the user interface of the client computer. This analysis condition is converted into a query condition of a specified format by the application software server. Search the database according to the query conditions to obtain the query result, and then send the query result back to the client computer through the application software server, and display the analysis result.

In the analysis of the patent literature, as shown in the example of the second figure, the related information of the technical data is presented in a textual manner by using the arranging mode of the list of lists, including, for example, a file title, a file number, and Application date, publication date, publication date, announcement date, author (inventor), owner, etc. Readers who want to obtain further information must re-enter the topic. By reading the abstract or even opening the attachment to read the text and schema, it is necessary to know whether the information content is related to the subject of the reader's concern, and often do a lot of data processing. At the time, the time spent is high, causing a large number of bottlenecks in the technical (patent) literature analysis work.

Therefore, how to effectively integrate the files of multiple technical databases and analyze the content and trends of technical materials quickly and effectively is one of the biggest issues at present.

In the above technology, the related application of the external database data is not disclosed, and only the external database data is retrieved and returned to the local database or the server for analysis. It also does not provide a screen for readers to quickly obtain relevant information, or provide an interactive report commenting platform for readers to share their experiences in reading technical materials, thereby increasing the efficiency of reading technical materials.

According to the embodiment disclosed by the present invention, a management system and method for technical documents can be provided, which can perform information classification, retrieval, reading, commenting, sharing, and exchange of opinions. In this embodiment, a set of technical literature data is pre-processed, and a related pattern in a set of technical literature is selected, and the important information captured is integrated into a picture, and the reader is provided with a graphical picture. Read the technical literature, and reduce the redundant format of resource-consume (such as PDF or TIFF), and can perform technical classification, management, export/import, etc. Readers can further record the comments after reading the technical materials on this information sharing platform through the information sharing platform.

In one embodiment, the disclosed person is directed to a technical literature retrieval system. The capture system includes the capture system including a verification screening unit, a selection module, and a data capture module. The verification screening unit uses the relevance of a technical literature as a basis for judging the parameters of the technical literature. The selected module is selected through the parameters selected by the verification screening unit to select relevant information in the technical literature. The data capture module extracts the selected important information and provides it to the reader along with the relevant information selected by the selected module.

In another embodiment, the disclosed person is a reading system for a technical document. The reading system includes at least a graphical picture, a classification module, a management module, and And a export/import module. Through the graphical picture, the classification module provides the reader with a set of graphical technical literature for technical classification or product classification, and is built into a system. The management module provides the reader to archive the technical data according to the attributes of the technical data, or delete the selected technical data from the system. The export/import module provides the reader with the selected data to be exported/imported into the system.

In addition to processing, archiving, deleting, exporting/importing, the reading system can provide a hyperlink module to link the database in the system to obtain the corresponding literature in the database.

In another embodiment, the disclosed person is a review system for a technical document. The comment system includes at least one comment subject unit, a read comment unit, and an additional unit. The comment subject unit provides the reader with a comment subject and displays different comment topics. The reading commentary unit provides readers with a review of the technical literature after reading, and displays comments from different readers, additional units attached or other information collected or generated by the reader during the analysis of the reading process.

In another embodiment, the disclosed person is directed to a method of extracting technical documents. The method for extracting includes: setting the relevance of a technical literature as a basis for judging, setting parameters of the technical literature of the group; selecting the relevance information in the technical literature through the set parameters; and The selected important information is taken out and provided with the selected association information in a proper arrangement on a screen, so that the user can read the technical literature with better visual effects than the previous case, and improve the technical literature analysis. effectiveness.

In another embodiment, the disclosed person is directed to a method of reading a technical document. This reading method includes: extracting important information and related information of a set of technical literature, and Provided on a screen for reading to the reader; and through this screen, sorting, archiving, deleting, exporting/importing the set of technical documents, any combination of the foregoing functions.

In another embodiment, the disclosed person is directed to a method of reading and commenting on a technical document. The reading and commenting method includes: the reading method of the foregoing embodiment further includes the step of providing an information sharing platform, the information sharing platform allowing the reader to record the comments after reading the technical literature, and attaching the collected information during the analysis reading or Other information generated, or comments from different readers.

In the above embodiment, the capture system and the reading system of the technical literature can be integrated into a capture and reading system of a technical document. The reading and commenting system of the technical literature can also be integrated into a reading and commenting system of technical literature, or a system of reading, reading and commenting on the technical literature by integrating the retrieval system, the reading system and the commenting system.

When the invention is applied to design patent analysis, powerful results can be drawn. For example, the present invention enables a user to speed up the screening of patent maps during an initial search phase by displaying a representative set of a plurality of patent documents. To reduce the user's need for more resource-intensive image formats and to improve system resource usage.

The above and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

300‧‧‧ capture system

301‧‧‧Verification screening unit

301a‧‧‧Setting parameters

302‧‧‧Select selected modules

303‧‧‧ Data Capture Module

310‧‧‧Technical literature

320‧‧‧Association schema

330‧‧‧ screen

330a‧‧‧ Graphical picture

350‧‧‧ Hyperlink Module

3201, 3202, 3203‧‧‧ relative position

410‧‧‧ time selected module

420‧‧‧Qualified selection module

421‧‧‧Rectangle

422‧‧‧Area

423‧‧‧Dimensions with adjusted range

424‧‧‧Two boundary intersections of the original images of the technical literature

430‧‧‧Application Status Selection Module

500‧‧‧Reading system

501‧‧‧Classification module

502‧‧‧Management module

503‧‧‧Export/import module

504‧‧‧Zoom module

520‧‧‧ Graphical picture

800‧‧‧Comment System

801‧‧‧Comment theme unit

802‧‧‧Reading comment unit

803‧‧‧Additional unit

804‧‧‧Lawyer Unit

901a‧‧‧Different input topics

Date 902a‧‧

902b‧‧‧Reader's name or code

902c‧‧·Reading abstracts of the literature

902d‧‧‧Reading the contents of the literature

950‧‧‧ Blog type display

1000‧‧‧Technical literature acquisition and reading system

1100‧‧‧Reading and commenting system for technical literature

1200‧‧‧System for the acquisition and reading of technical literature

1310‧‧‧ Use the relevance of a technical literature as a basis for judging the parameters of this technical literature

1320‧‧‧Select the relevant information in this technical literature by setting the parameters

1330‧‧‧Draw out selected important information and provide it on the screen together with the selected relevance information

1410‧‧‧Collecting important information and related information from a set of technical literature and providing it on a screen for readers to read

1420‧‧‧Use this screen to classify, archive, delete, export/import the technical literature of the group, any combination of the above functions

1510‧‧‧ Provides an information sharing platform that allows readers to record comments after reading the technical literature and to attach other information they have collected or generated during the analytical reading process, or to display comments from different readers

164‧‧‧ display module

165‧‧‧Capture module

166‧‧‧Tracking module

167‧‧‧Task Assignment Module

169‧‧‧recording module

168‧‧‧Report Generation Module

1691‧‧‧Search Rule Simulator

1692‧‧‧Program Menu

1693‧‧‧Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Module

1695‧‧‧Zoom module

1694‧‧‧ indicator module

1696‧‧‧ interface

171, 172‧‧‧ screen area

1721, 1722, 1723, 1724‧‧‧Information blocks

183, 184, 185 ‧ ‧ information blocks

191‧‧‧ Window

1911‧‧‧ options

192‧‧‧Information block

2001, 2002, P1, P2, P3‧‧‧ patent documents

211‧‧‧Screen area

X1, X2, X3, X4‧‧‧ basic unit

2110, 2111‧‧‧ text content

A, B, C‧‧‧ data classification

Classification of sub-data of A-1~A-3, B-1~B-3, C-1~C-3‧‧

G, H‧‧ ‧ database

J‧‧‧ short axis

K‧‧‧ long axis

The first figure is an example flow chart illustrating the operation of a method for generating patent analysis data.

The second diagram shows a list of listings for displaying information about the technical literature in a traditional patent document analysis paradigm.

Figure 3A is a schematic diagram of an example of a technical document retrieval system consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

Figure 3B is a schematic diagram of an example of a graphical picture consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

A fourth diagram further illustrates an exemplary schematic diagram of selected modules included in the verification screening list, consistent with certain embodiments of the present disclosure.

The fourth B diagram illustrates the extraction parameters by taking a patent document as an example, which is consistent with some embodiments of the present invention.

The fifth figure is a schematic diagram of an example of a reading system of the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

The sixth figure illustrates an example schematic diagram for classifying technical data through a classification module, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

The seventh figure illustrates an example schematic diagram of two sub-libraries that archive technical data in a system through a management module, consistent with certain embodiments of the present disclosure.

The eighth figure is an exemplary architectural diagram of the review system of the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

The ninth diagram is an exemplary diagram of the implementation of the various elements of the review system, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

The tenth figure is a schematic diagram of an example of a capture and reading system of the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

An eleventh drawing is an exemplary schematic diagram of a reading and commenting system of the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

A twelfth diagram is an exemplary diagram of a system for capturing and reading and reviewing technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

A thirteenth diagram is an exemplary flow chart of a method of capturing the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

Figure 14 is an exemplary flow chart of a method of reading the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

The fifteenth diagram is an exemplary flow chart of the method of reading and commenting on the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

Figure 16 is a schematic view of another embodiment of the present invention.

Figures 17A through 17D are schematic views of document units at different display ratios.

The eighteenth figure is a schematic diagram of a drag-and-drop operation.

The nineteenth figure is a schematic diagram of an interface example of a patent document.

Figure 20 is a schematic diagram of a tracking list when analyzing a plurality of patent documents.

The twenty-first figure is a schematic diagram of generating a pattern in an optical character recognition (OCR) process.

The implementation example of the disclosure may use a plurality of source databases, such as a technical literature database, to analyze a set of original technical documents and then reconstitute the associated data groups to establish an internal database. This group of technical documents, such as patent documents or papers, related information, after the relevant information is extracted, can provide readers with a graphical picture to read the data of the group of technical documents, and allows the reader to classify, Archive, delete, Processing such as export/import. It also allows readers to record comments after reading the technical literature, or to display comments from different readers. Other materials collected or generated during the analysis reading process may also be attached or generated. In this way, the user of the client can quickly and effectively analyze the content and trends of the technical data.

Figure 3A is a schematic diagram of an example of a technical document retrieval system consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3A, a technical document 310, such as a patent document or a paper, can retrieve the association information 320 of the technical document through the retrieval system 300, and the extracted association information 320 can include a map. Like (Image) or Text (Text). Graphical images can be provided, which are usually read by readers in a regular arrangement. The relevance information 320 is a result of correlation calculation and analysis through at least one internal database or technical file.

Relevance refers to the relative relationship between technical documents or materials in the internal database (including text and illustrations), such as the relative relationship between the application number and the filing date, and the relative relationship between the journal title and the inventor.

Relevance computing refers to various operations, comparisons, or screenings between technical documents or data in internal databases, such as Boolean logic, weighting, and so on. Taking patent documents as an example, the screening of high correlation calculations of data can select the patent number, application date, inventor, owner and other information of the same patent. If the screening of low data correlation operations is performed, the information of the inventor according to the patent number may be selected, and the inventor of other patent numbers may also be selected.

In the example of the capture system 300 of FIG. 3A, the capture system 300 includes a verification screening unit 301 and a capture selection module 302. The verification screening unit 301 sets the relevance of a technical document material 310 as a basis for determining the parameters of the technical document data 310. number. The selected module 302 retrieves the association information 320 in the technical literature through the capture parameter 301a finally set by the verification screening unit 301. Each association schema is the main schema of a technical document, and the main schema refers to a homepage schema or a schema representing technical features. In this example, the term "relevant information" may be information that has been extracted, calculated, transformed, and/or derived from a technical literature in one or more technical fields to process technical documentation. . The term "related information" in this example may refer to an attribute, a parameter, a state, or other information indicating a technical document in the technical field of the technical literature or in any part of the technical literature. For example, the related information may refer to the estimated starting point of a schema contained in the first page of a patent file, and the "related information" such as patent number, owner information, etc. can be used to help determine the origin. location. In the example of the patent document, the related information is used to obtain the related information, and the related information is used to obtain the related schema, and the related schema is also a related information of a patent document.

The capture system 300 can further include a data capture module 303 for selecting important information, such as the title of the patent document, the owner, the inventor, the document number, or the specific logo, and the selected module 302. The extracted association information 320 is provided for reading by the reader on a screen 330. The schematic diagram of the screen 330 is as shown in the graphical screen 330a of FIG.

An example schematic diagram of the graphical picture 330a is eight pieces of related information of a technical document and its corresponding important information. If the eight related information is the main map of the top page of the eight US patents, and/or its corresponding important information, such as its corresponding US patent number, and / or patent name and / or owner information. The graphical image 330a can also arrange related information and its corresponding important information in a regular manner, such as a table or a list of lists. It is also possible to use a continuous type of web page for the reader to read by scrolling. Or non-continuous The status is displayed in a form-changing manner, and a certain number of images per page can be set according to the reader's habits. The graphical image (or at least one file unit) may also provide a hyperlink module, such as indicated by reference numeral 350, to link the system database to obtain advanced relevant information, such as the full text of the patent document (Full Text). And when the reader approaches the relevant information of one of the cursors, a window pops up to display the abstract, name, author (inventor), owner (owner), and public (announcement) of the technical document corresponding to the related information. ), or any combination of the above.

Relevant (including relevance) information and/or corresponding important information of any block can be defined as a Document Unit. The relevant information in the file unit can be the main figure or the characteristic figure in the front page of a patent, and the corresponding important information can be the name, the file (patent) number, and the author ( Inventor), owner (owner), application serial number, filing date/publication date/announcement date, abstract, or any combination of the above. A plurality of file units are arranged in an m×n image table method, where m and n are integers greater than one. A preferred range of m is from 3 to 7, and a preferred range of n is from 3 to 1,000. The preferred value for making the visual experience better is between 8 and 30.

For example, for a web page displaying 100 patent documents, the layout of the web page may be a 4×25 file unit, a 5×20 file unit, or any other regular arrangement. If the number of patent documents cannot be arranged in m x n, such as 97, then a 5 x 20 arrangement would leave 3 vacancy. However, this arrangement is still in the category of the mxn format. Relevant important information can be placed close to relevant information, such as above, below, to the right or to the left of related (related) information. Another design is to pop up a window when the cursor stays in the file unit or its associated (including associative) information, and a portion of the corresponding important information is displayed in this window. For example, in Figure 3B, the corresponding important information displayed contains the name and announcement. No. and announcement day. When the cursor stays at the location of the relevant information, the pop-up window displays the name, abstract, priority date/application date/open day/announcement date, patent family, author (inventor), owner, or above. random combination.

It is worth mentioning that Zoom In/Zoom Out can also be performed on file units. There are three ways to achieve the approach of zooming in/out. The first way is to display a larger image of this file unit when the cursor stays in the file unit. The second way is that the system determines the display ratio of the image unit in this file unit based on the values of m and/or n. The third way is to use a Zoom Module to allow the user to adjust the display size of the image in the file unit. Please refer to the details in the fifth figure.

The technical literature 310 takes the patent document as an example, and the retrieval system 300 can use the time, the application status, the qualification or the patent content of the patent as a basis for judging the patent information acquisition and analysis. Accordingly, the verification screening unit 301 can be a kind of judgment logic, and the qualification parameters, the application status, the time, the patent content, and the like of the group of patent documents are used as a judgment basis to set the capture parameters of the patent document. In addition, the verification screening unit 301, as shown in FIG. 4A, may further include a time selection module 410, a qualification selection module 420, an application status selection module 430, or any combination of the foregoing modules. . A fourth diagram further illustrates an exemplary schematic diagram of the verification screening unit 301 containing these selected modules, consistent with certain embodiments of the present disclosure.

When the technical literature 310 is exemplified by the patent document, in the example of the verification screening unit 301 of the fourth A diagram, the time selection module 410 may be based on the part of the patent document related to the time and date, such as the application date, the publication date, The date of the announcement, the priority date, etc., as the basis for the judgment, the setting of the capture parameters of a set of patent documents is performed according to different periods. Set The acquisition parameters are, for example, the extraction starting point, the extraction range, and the relative offset (Related Offset) of the technical literature 310. The fourth B diagram illustrates a capture parameter using a technical document as an example, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to the fourth B diagram, the starting point and the capturing range may be a Default Value, for example, may be set as a two-boundary intersection of the original image of a technical document, such as reference numeral 424, or the technical literature. The geometric center is the starting point or coordinate axis origin (0,0). The extraction range may be, for example, a rectangle 421 formed by a length of X and a width Y, or an area 422 formed by any geometric pattern having a major axis K and a minor axis J.

Referring to FIG. 4B, the technical document is, for example, a patent document. If the application date of the patent document is used as an example of the judgment basis, the intersection of the two boundaries of the original image of the patent document is taken as the origin, and the predetermined value of the range is taken. For example, a rectangle of 330 × 400 (pixels). When the application date is 2006, for example, the starting point of the extraction may be set to be the relative displacement Δd (+10 mil) from the coordinate axis origin 420, and the extraction range is, for example, the X-axis ΔX is +10. The ΔY of the pixel and the Y-axis is +20 pixels, that is, the extraction range is adjusted to a rectangle 423 formed by a length of X + ΔX and a width of Y + ΔY. If only a certain application date is used as a basis for judgment, the starting point is, for example, a distance of +5 mil from the boundary of the original image of the patent document, and the extraction range is a rectangle of 310×420 pixels. ΔX, ΔY can be positive or negative. 1 mil is equal to 1/1000 inch (inch).

Similarly, the qualification selection module 420 may be a qualification verification module of a patent document, which may be based on parts related to personnel, territories, classifications or qualifications in the patent literature, such as Inventor, Assignee , Agent (Agent), International Classification (IPC), US Classification (USC), European Classification (ELCA), Japanese Classification (FI/F-Term), International Industrial Design Classification (Locarno Classification), etc. Examiner, etc. The quantity is used as a basis for judging to set the parameters of the patent document. The set parameters are as follows: the starting point, the drawing range, and the relative displacement. Taking the owner as the basis for judgment, for example, if the owner is the ITRI, the relative displacement Δd set by the coordinate can be the coordinate axis origin + 20 mil, and the ΔX of the extraction range is, for example, +50 pixels, and Δ Y is for example +60 pixels. ΔX, ΔY can be positive or negative.

Similarly, the application status selection module 430 may be based on the application status of the patent document (eg, disclosure, approval notice, number of divisions, or number of continuation cases, etc.) or reference to an Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) or family ( The number of the Family or the number of abstract words or the country of application is used as a basis for judging to set/adjust the parameters of the patent document.

After the time selection module 410, the qualification selection module 420, the application status selection module 430, or the combination of any of the foregoing modules is set, the capture parameters of each selected module may be used differently. The proportional weights are adjusted or matched with the Boolean logical relationships of the captured regions (such as intersections, associations, etc.) to set the final parameters of the patent documents. Taking the aforementioned filing date as 2006, the owner is the Industrial Research Institute as an example. The sum of the relative displacements Δd taken is equal to the relative displacement of the application date in 2006 multiplied by the application date weight W1, and the owner is The relative displacement taken by the ITRI multiplied by the weight of ownership human rights W2, the sum of the two, where W1 + W2 = 100%. When W1 = W2 = 50%, the sum of the relative displacements Δd is equal to 15 mils.

For the same reason, the weight W3 of the scope of the application for the year 2006 and the weight W4 of the scope of the acquisition by the owner of the ITRI may be obtained. When W3 = 40%, W4 = 60%, the sum of ΔX of the extraction range is equal to 34, and the sum of ΔY is equal to 28. Therefore, if the patent documents applied for by the Industrial Technology Research Institute in 2006, the starting point is the intersection of the two borders of the original image of the patent document +15 mil. Where, and its extraction range is a rectangle of 334 × 328 pixels. Accordingly, the starting point of the patent document and the size of the extraction range can be known.

According to the present invention, after the reader reads the graphical picture or through the hyperlink module 350, the data can be classified, archived, deleted, exported/imported, and the like. The fifth figure is a schematic diagram of an example of a reading system of the technical literature, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to the embodiment of the fifth figure, the reading system 500 of this technical document may include a graphical picture 520 prepared with m x n Document Units, m and n being positive integers. Usually, both m and n are greater than one. The reading system 500 of the technical literature may further include any combination of the classification module 501, the management module 502, the export/import module 503, and the zoom module 504. The graphical screen 520 can be retrieved through the capture system 300. Through the graphical screen 520, the classification module 501 provides a reader, and a set of graphical technical literature is classified into a technical classification or product classification, and is built into a system. The management module 502 provides the reader to archive the technical data according to the attributes of the technical data, or delete the selected technical data from the system. The export/import module 503 exports/imports the selected data. The zoom module 504 enlarges or reduces the file unit, so that images of different sizes in the file unit can be displayed. In this reading system 500, there are multiple ways to implement each module.

In the reading system 500, the reader can classify the technical data according to the attributes of the technical data classified in the detailed classification items. The sixth figure illustrates an example schematic diagram for classifying technical data through the classification module 501, consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention. In the example in the sixth figure, the technical data is divided into three categories: A, B, and C. Further classification can be performed as needed. For example, class A is subdivided into A-1, A-2, and A-3. , Class C is subdivided into C-1, C-2 Two types.

After the reader completes the judgment of the technical data, the management module 502 can also archive the data in the sub-database in the system according to the feature of the technical data. The seventh figure shows that the technical data is archived in the system. The sub-databases G and H are consistent with certain embodiments of the present invention.

According to the present invention, the reader can record the comments of the technical literature after reading, or display the comments of different readers. Accordingly, another embodiment of the present disclosure provides a review system of the technical literature. This comment system is a news sharing platform for reading reports. The reader can record the comments of the technical literature after reading, or display the comments of different readers, and can add or generate other materials collected or generated during the analysis of the reading process, such as the file wrapper (File Wrapper) , news events, trading information, lawsuits (Lawsuit) information.

Accordingly, as shown in the eighth embodiment, in the embodiment of the disclosure, the comment system 800 includes at least a comment subject unit 801, a read comment unit 802, an additional unit 803, and/or a lawyer audit unit (Attorney Audit). Unit) 804. Through the comment topic unit 801, the reader can be input to the comment topic, and different comment topics can also be displayed on the comment topic unit 801. Through the reading commenting unit 802, the reader can record the comments after reading the technical documents, and can also display the comments of different readers on the reading commenting unit 802. Through the additional unit 803, other materials collected or generated by the reader during the analysis of the reading process can be attached. The attorney auditing unit 804 provides the attorney with an interface to perform the review work, such as commenting on the review subject unit 801 or the reading review unit 802, such that the analysis form or material can be used to seek legal advice or take legal action. This interface can be designed to allow an authorized person or lawyer to access this interface with a specific account to check data or comments, and to perform confirmation, communication or interaction, especially in litigation, at the lawyer-party Under the protection of Attorney-Client Privilege, the relevant content is protected and the legal rights of the parties are fully protected.

There are several ways to implement each unit in this review system. For example, in the example of the ninth figure, on the reading commenting unit 802, the commenting system 800 can automatically generate a date, a reader's name, or a code number for a topic A on the reading commenting unit 802. The reader can record the comments after reading the technical documents in a comment editing area 902a, such as reading abstracts of the documents, reviewing the contents of the documents, and the like. Comments from different readers may also be displayed on the reading comment unit 802. For example, in the list of topics A, there are three readers' comments, and each reader's comments may include basic information such as comments and comment content, such as tribes. The type of the grid is displayed. On the comment subject unit 801, the reader can enter a topic and list different input topics A, B, C, and the like. During the analysis and reading process, other materials collected or generated by the reader may also be attached to the additional unit 803 as an attachment, and the attachment list is, for example, the approval history of the patent document, and the attachment 2, as an attachment. For example, news events, or transaction information.

According to the present invention, the above-described technical document capture system 300 and reading system 500 can also be integrated into a capture and reading system 1000 of a technical document, as shown in the tenth figure. Similarly, the reading system 500 and the commenting system 800 of the above-described technical documents can also be integrated into a reading and commenting system 1100 of a technical document, as shown in FIG. In a particular embodiment, the reading and commenting system 1100 can include two review systems 800, one of which is provided to all system users to share all of the information, while the other review system 800 is authorized to control. And only for specific system users to share information. The retrieval system 300, the reading system 500, and the review system 800 can also be integrated into a system 1200 for reading and reading and reviewing technical documents, as shown in FIG. Each system can be integrated with the application according to actual needs.

Based on the third A diagram and the above description, the present invention also discloses a method for capturing the technical literature, such as the example flow of the thirteenth diagram. Referring to the thirteenth figure, first, the relevance of a technical literature is used as a basis for judging, and the parameters of the technical literature are set, as shown in step 1310. Then, through the set parameters, the association information in the technical literature is selected, as shown in step 1320. The selected important information is retrieved and provided along with the selected association information on a screen, as shown in step 1330.

As mentioned above, the set extraction parameters include at least the starting point, the extraction range, and the relative displacement of the set of technical literature. This screen can also provide hyperlinks to link to the system database for advanced information, or all documents or full text of this technical literature (or patent).

In accordance with Figure 5A and the above description, the present invention also discloses a method of reading a technical document, such as the example flow of Figure 14. Referring to Figure 14, first, an important set of information and related information of a technical literature is extracted and provided on a screen for reading by the reader, as shown in step 1410. Then, through this screen, the group of technical documents can be classified, archived, deleted, exported/imported, or any combination of the foregoing functions, as shown in step 1420.

Following step 1420 of FIG. 14, the present invention may further comprise the step of providing an information sharing platform that allows the reader to record the review of the technical literature and to add or generate it during the analytical reading process. The other information, or the comments of different readers, such as step 1510 in the example flow of the fifteenth figure, accordingly, the present invention also discloses a method of reading and commenting on the technical literature.

Therefore, the present invention provides a system platform of technical literature, which constitutes a technical resource. The material file network effectively accumulates and shares the team's knowledge and energy, and quickly completes the retrieval and analysis of technical literature. Moreover, since the present invention translates the patent documents into different states, the present invention can greatly reduce the load on the system caused by repeated or multiple users attempting to open the graphical format file at the same time.

Please refer to a sixteenth diagram, which is a schematic view of another embodiment of the present invention. A system for managing patent documents is disclosed in the sixteenth figure. The system can be computer code stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, and computer code executable by a processor or any electronic device. The system has a display module 164, a capture module 165, a tracking module 166, a task assignment module 167, a zoom module 1695, an indicator module 1694, and an optical character recognition (OCR) module. A group 1693, a program menu 1692, a search rule simulator 1691, a record module 169, and a report generation module 168. It should be noted that although many modules are shown in Figure 16, one or more modules can be removed according to design needs. At the same time, other modules not shown in the drawings can also be added to the system. The above modules can be encoded by software code and executed on a machine, or encoded by software code and executed on multiple machines to provide the functions described below. The modules are interconnected via an interface 1696, which may be, but is not limited to, a mechanism, a virtual machine, or an operating system. The modules will be described separately below.

Referring to FIGS. 17A through 17D, FIGS. 17A through 17D illustrate a plurality of patent documents displayed on file unit 172 and displayed in a picture area 171 at different display ratios. A zoom module (not shown) cooperates with a display module to display the contents of the seventeenth through seventeenth Dth. The zoom module enlarges or reduces a plurality of patent documents displayed in different file units in different display ratios according to a user's instruction. In addition, at different display ratios, the schema or font can be displayed in different sizes. With the user's instruction, the information of different information amounts may not be displayed. Displayed with the display ratio.

For example, in Figure 17A, the information displayed by the two information blocks 1721, 1722 in one file unit is shown. The information displayed by the block 1721 can be a schema or a portion of the schema, such as the related information previously mentioned. The information displayed by the block 1722 can be an important piece of information, such as a combination of the application date, the application number, the owner, the inventor, and the like. The seventeenth B-picture shows a large display ratio, for example, each file unit still occupies a large area while maintaining the original display ratio in the picture area 171. Further, in the seventeenth Bth diagram, in addition to the blocks 1721 and 1722, another information block 1723 is also displayed by the file unit 172. For example, part or all of the abstract text of a patent document is shown by block 1723. It should be noted that blocks 1721, 1722, and 1723 may contain different information under different designs and are not limited to the example descriptions herein.

The seventeenth Cth and seventeenth Dth views respectively show a schematic view of the patent document displayed at a larger display ratio and at a smaller display ratio. In addition to the other four blocks 1721, 1722, 1723, and 1724, the additional information block 1725 in FIG. 17C, such as comments from other users, may be displayed by file unit 172. In contrast, in the seventeenth Dth diagram, each file unit 172 displays only one information block 1721. It should be noted that even if only one information block is displayed in one file unit, multiple pieces of information may be combined and appear in the information block. For example, a patent name, a partial abstract, or a patent application. Alternatively, a minimized schema or a portion of the schema may be displayed as an information block of a file unit.

Instructions to zoom in or out of the picture can be built into a gesture module. The gesture module converts one or more touch gestures on the touch panel into a corresponding zoom indicator. For example, when two fingers are simultaneously pressed on the touch panel and slided to each other, the gesture module compiles the gesture to zoom in, and displays the text at a larger display ratio. Pieces. Today's iPads and touchpads with Windows 8 have touch panels. In order to simplify the content of the manual, the details of how to construct the gesture module are described herein.

Another type of zoom indication can be achieved via an indicator module that compiles the operation of an indicator device into a zoom indicator. For example, the indicator device can be a mouse device. When a user presses a scroll wheel of a mouse on a display message or drags a zoom control function, the operations are translated into a corresponding zoom indication to indicate how the display module displays a plurality of patent documents.

In addition to performing the zooming and zooming operations, the user can also use the gesture module and/or the indicator module to drag one or more patent documents for classification. Figure 18 shows the classification operation. Two selected file units corresponding to the two patent documents are dragged and dropped to a category 183, which refers to a category or a subcategory under a taxonomy, like categories 184 and 185. These file units may be replaced by other file units after being dragged and dropped into a category, or removed from the screen area. In other words, in the classification mode, a user can easily classify all patent documents by their relevant categories. In addition, in another mode, a patent document can be attributed to multiple categories. For example, a patent document can be classified into categories such as "useful", "requires perusal", and "LED module". The first category "useful" refers to a basis or a value of a patent document in a particular analysis, such as a search for a pre-citation that invalidates a public patent. Other parallel options such as "unrelated" can be listed on the side of a category. The second category, "need to be read", can be categorized with other patent documents into categories that will be read later. The third category of "LED modules" refers to the classification of patent documents into categories related to LED module technology. It should be noted that how to define and use categories is not limited to those described here. Other changes in definition and usage categories can be derived according to different needs. Come.

In the nineteenth figure, one or more users can use a comment module to comment on the patent documents they are reading. For example, the user selects a file unit 192 and displays a pop-up window 191 for the user to enter comments related to the patent document associated with file unit 192. The review interface can have many different design approaches. For example, a text field provided by an option in the plurality of options 1911 may cause a user to enter a name, one or more text paragraphs in plain text format, or a text paragraph rich in images and additional files. For example, a web page URL, a PDF file or an image file.

When one or more users process a number of patent documents through the system, a tracking module is provided to track the user's viewing progress of viewing, analyzing, and/or reviewing the patent documents. Usually after the user reads a patent document, the user may be inspired by the clues of the patent document to search for more patent documents. Therefore, a capture module is provided to obtain more patent documents for viewing, analysis and commentary. The tracking module can be designed not only to record the progress of the user reading the patent document, such as sequentially reading the patent document P1, then the patent document P2, then the patent document P3, etc., and also recording how the specific patent document is in the analysis process. appear. For example, when reading a particular patent document, search for and capture new patent documents. The tracking trajectory can be reflected as a tree diagram, a list, or a network with links to the patent documents. Moreover, the tracking trajectory helps users not miss important documents when studying a large amount of patent documents. For example, the twentieth diagram illustrates an example of how a user analyzes a trajectory that processes a plurality of patent documents. Patent Document 2001 in the left column is a document found under the first search rule. Patent Document 2002 is a document that is found after a user reads a second patent document. Search rules can be recorded, and hierarchical organizations show how to search under a logical structure.

When multiple users work together on a project plan for specific patent document analysis, the system is designed with a task assignment module for assigning tasks. For example, a plurality of sets of different patent documents can be retrieved from multiple modules or different search rules to multiple users. The task assignment module can be designed to dynamically collect execution information and present this information to the project manager to control the process of an analysis task. An authorization module can be designed to control the connection rights of a group of users. As mentioned previously, a comment module can provide a user within a team to share relevant comments corresponding to different patent documents.

Usually a report needs to be organized after the end of an analysis task. The system can also include a report generation module to generate a report. For example, the analysis processing time is combined with the processing person, under which search conditions are captured and viewed, and useful information is collected from the comment module. With this function, you can reduce the workload and improve your work efficiency.

In addition, the existing patent database usually provides a graphic representation of the image format, as well as a textual description of the text format. The twenty-first figure shows how an optical character recognition (OCR) module can be used to correlate the textual content of a patent specification in a patent database with a schema. In the screen area 211, an image is formed by the basic units X1, X2, X3, and X4. Under the processing of optical character recognition (OCR), numerical forms such as "511", "40", and "Fig.2" are extracted from the image file of the drawing. These numerical forms of text are used to find relevant textual content in the patent specification. The text content 2111 related to the numerical character can be directly attached to the numerical character in the drawing. Or use a pop-up window to display related text content 2110. The above texts 2110, 2111 and their original sources, such as the seventh column, lines 14-15, can be copied and pasted into a report, which is composed of a comment module and a previously mentioned report generation module. Maintained and combined with the above information to make the report easier to read.

Because different analytical work has different needs, as well as different task types. The system can provide a program menu to allow the user or a team to select a solution before performing the following analysis. For example, a pre-case search that invalidates a public patent has a rather distinctive feature than a patent map. Different scenarios are decided with different presentations, such as how are reports generated? How to display a file unit? And what type of information does the block in the file unit display? And what kind of comment area to include? And so on, in combination with the various modules described above, provide different interfaces for the user.

In addition, a search simulator provides a preview of the information in the patent literature under different search rules. With the aforementioned design, the user can view which search rule is more appropriate, for example, before the patent documents are actually captured and presented, avoiding bringing too many patent documents to improve the analysis speed and increase work efficiency.

Although in the above examples, the patent literature is used as an embodiment. It should be noted, however, that other types of documents, such as technical documents, commercial literature, or other types of documents, under the same or similar logic, are also considered to be within the scope of the present invention.

In addition, the patent literature operates as an embodiment to explain the invention, but other types of peer-to-peer file types may also be used in the system. For example, the system can be used to retrieve trademarks of trademark databases. Sometimes a trademark file contains a graphic, such as a logo or identifier to distinguish the product. These schemas can be considered as relevant information previously mentioned. Another example is a drug database that contains a number of pharmaceutical products with graphical and related textual descriptions such as drug names, side effects, and the like. The above documents are not limited to the documents described herein and can be used in the present system to add beneficial effects. As described in the foregoing text and drawings, in addition to patent documents, trademarks, trade dress documents or other intellectual property related documents, it can be considered to fall into the same range. Explain the same or similar effects with the same or similar methods.

The above examples disclose that embodiments of the invention can be constructed to be computer readable instructions. The computer readable instructions can be stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium and executed by one or more processors. However, it should be noted that as the technology advances, such computer readable instructions can be written to a variety of electronic devices and can be partially embodied as hardware, while the remainder is built into software or firmware. Variations of the remaining embodiments are also considered to fall within the scope of the present invention.

The features and spirit of the present invention will be more apparent from the detailed description of the preferred embodiments. On the contrary, the intention is to cover various modifications, and the equivalents are within the scope of the scope of the invention as claimed. Therefore, the scope of the patented scope of the invention should be construed in the broadest

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Claims (10)

A reading system of a technical document, the reading system comprising at least: a graphical interface, the graphical interface is divided into a plurality of file units, each file unit of the plurality of file units displaying a technical document in a picture area File information, and the file information includes an important information of the technical literature, or at least one related schema, or the important information and the at least one related schema; a display module for displaying the technical document Important information, or the at least one related schema, or the important information and the at least one related schema; the important information of the technical document, or the at least one related schema, or the important information and the at least one correlation The file is displayed in the file unit in the screen area; and a zoom module is configured to enlarge or reduce the display manner of the technical document in the file unit at different display ratios; wherein when the file unit is first When the technical literature information displayed by the display ratio is greater than the technical literature information displayed by the second display ratio, the first display ratio is greater than the first Display ratio. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 1, the system further comprising a gesture module for translating a first touch gesture into a zoom indicator to indicate that the zoom module is zoomed in or out. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 2, the system further comprising a sorting module; wherein the gesture module translates a second touch gesture into a drag and drop indication to indicate display on the file unit This technical document within is dragged to a category and the classification of the plurality of technical documents is carried out. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 1 of the patent scope further includes An indicator module for translating an indicator device operation into a zoom indicator to indicate that the zoom module is zoomed in or out. The reading system of the technical document of claim 4, further comprising a sorting module; wherein the indicator module translates a second indicator operation into a drag and drop indication to indicate display on the file This technical document within the unit is towed to a category and the classification of the technical literature is carried out. The reading system of the technical document of any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising an optical character recognition (OCR) processing module for use in the technical literature The at least one related pattern applies optical character recognition, and maps the numerical characters in the at least one related pattern to a text content in the specification of the technical document. The reading system of the technical document of claim 6, wherein when the numerical character is selected, the text content is displayed by a pop-up window. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 1, the system further comprising a program menu for enabling a user to select a solution for analyzing the technical document and providing different analysis, the program menu may be Optional includes patentable pre-case retrieval and patent map generation. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 1, the system further comprising a search rule simulator for previewing the technical document information under different search rules. The reading system of the technical document described in claim 1, the system further comprising a tracking module for tracking the user to sequentially view and retrieve the browsing process of the technical document.